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See also: illustré
English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
illustre (comparative more illustre, superlative most illustre)
Verb[edit]
illustre (third-person singular simple present illustres, present participle illustring, simple past and past participle illustred) (transitive, obsolete)
- To illuminate (something).
- 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas], “[Du Bartas His First VVeek, or Birth of the VVorld: […].] The Fift Daie of the First VVeek.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 140:
- But, as the Phœnix on my Front doth gliſter, / Thou ſhalt the Finials of my Frame illuſtre.
- To make (someone) illustrious.
Derived terms[edit]
- illustrated (“made illustrious”, adjective)
References[edit]
- OED 2nd edition 1989
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /i.lystʁ/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ystʁ
- Homophones: illustrent, illustres
Etymology 1[edit]
From Latin illustris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“to illustrate”).
Adjective[edit]
illustre (plural illustres)
- illustrious
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter XXXIII:
- À Florence, riche et fameuse ville d’Italie, dans la province qu’on appelle Toscane, vivaient deux gentilshommes d’illustre famille, Anselme et Lothaire....
- In Florence, a rich and famous city of Italy, in the province called Tuscany, lived two gentlemen of illustrious family, Anselmo and Lothario....
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb[edit]
illustre
- inflection of illustrer:
Further reading[edit]
- “illustre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin illustris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“to illustrate”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
illustre (plural illustri, superlative illustrissimo)
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- illustre in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin[edit]
Adjective[edit]
illūstre
References[edit]
- “illustre”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
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